The Kazakh authorities have found no harmful chemicals in candies produced by Ukrainian company Roshen, the deputy head of the sanitary control centre of the Kazakh Public Healthcare Ministry, Nurken Sadvokasov, says.
Roshen's products have recently been banned in Russia, as the authorities have allegedly found benzopyrene in them.
The public believes, however, that the move was aimed at pressuring the Ukrainian government to join the Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus instead of becoming an associate member of the European Union.
Russian fiction author and journalist Yuliya Latynina also notes that the Roshen company is owned by Petro Poroshenko, a Ukrainian businessman who financed the 2004 Orange Revolution.
The Kremlin has not forgotten Poroshenko's role in those events and is now enjoying its revenge, Latynina believes.
